During last week's presidential debate, realizing that he was taking a beating on the Medicare solvency issue, Barack Obama issued the following cri de coeur: "AARP thinks that the savings that we obtained from Medicare bolster the system, lengthen the Medicare trust fund by eight years." Later, after enduring several more blows to his credibility, the President went on to claim AARP agreed with him that Romney's plan would weaken Medicare. Oddly, the "senior advocacy organization" took offense at these remarks. Having provided full-throated support to the President and the Democrats on Obamacare, and resisted Medicare reform, AARP has begun to revert to its nonpartisan pose now that Obama appears to be in trouble.

On Thursday, AARP issued this statement: "AARP has never consented to the use of its name by any candidate or political campaign. AARP is a nonpartisan organization and we do not endorse political candidates nor coordinate with any candidate or political party." The hypocrisy of this statement is breathtaking. AARP actively supported Obama and congressional Democrats on Obamacare knowing full well that it would cut Medicare Advantage (MA), an enormously popular program among seniors, by $200 billion. This obvious betrayal of its members was driven by the knowledge that these MA cuts would force millions of seniors back to traditional Medicare and create a captive market for AARP's "Medigap" policies......................

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................If Obama and the Democrats continue to be mugged by the ugly realities they have created, we'll hear more from AARP about nonpartisanship and to see its leadership stand idly by as their erstwhile friends endure the beating. But it's probably too late. If the GOP gains control of the White House and the Senate, the AARP will lose its cash cow after a well-deserved roughing up.

Before you throw AARP's financially self-serving, pro-big government propaganda into the trash heap, write a little billet-doux about your opinion of them on a piece of its literature and send it back in the pre-paid-postage envelope.

I do this all the time....and it's one of the few evil pleasures I indulge in regularly.

AARP is a nonpartisan organization and we do not endorse political candidates nor coordinate with any candidate or political party

Just because we supported Obamacare and all the wonderful things coming out of Obamas White House. We would never use our national platform to endorse Obama or that other guy that wants seniors to starve in the streets..

Maybe Rick Hendrick and Jeff Gordon will reconsider taking money from them for their new sponsorship deal which was just inked once this scandal is revealed to show the utter hypocrisy of this tool organization.

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